Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was at the forefront of Tejano music and was about to break into mainstream American market when she was fatally shot at age 23 by the former president of her fan club. This was in 1995. Known simply as Selena, she had already put out five studio albums, all of them being critically well-received. No wonder, she was called the Queen of Tejano music.

Almost three decades after her death, a new album containing recordings by the Grammy Award-winning artiste is on the way, her family has announced. In an interview with Latin Groove News, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the singer’s father, said the album is expected to be available by next month and it will feature 13 songs, with new arrangements by her brother A.B., and artwork by her sister, Suzette.

According to her father, three songs are new versions of previously released tracks while at least one track feature Selena’s soprano voice, recorded when she was 13 years old and digitally modified. A.B. has digitally mastered and modified the track to sound like an older Selena. Her father has said: ““What’s unique about it is not only the music, completely new arrangements, but my son worked on Selena’s voice with the computers. And if you listen to it, she sounds on this record like she did right before she passed away.”

Whether the final result is something Selena would have wanted is another story but the power of technology can be seen in full flow. In an interview last year with Tino Cochino Radio, A.B. said he remixed all of Selena’s vinyls and “detuned her voice,” rendering it deeper and closer to how she sounded in her 20s.

The New York Times has spoken to Joe Bennett, a forensic musicologist and professor at Berklee College of Music, who has said that digitally ageing a voice could potentially require just an isolated recording of the singer and the appropriate digital software.

Born Selena Quintanilla in Lake Jackson, Texas, she found fame in Latin America and in the Southwest and became a more mainstream figure in pop by 1994. Her fourth album, the Grammy-nominated Amor Prohibido reached No. 29 on the Billboard 200, and featured Hot Latin Songs No. 1 hits No Me Queda Más, Fotos Y Recuerdos, Amor Prohibido, and Bidi Bidi Bom Bom. She won her first Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Album for Live in 1994, a first for a female Tejano artist in the category. Tejano music has roots both in the oom-pah music of European settlers in Texas and in Mexican ballads.